The 2013 Fantasia International Film Festival is currently underway in Montreal, and at least a couple of the films screening there this year are being mentioned as partially De Palma-esque. Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado's Big Bad Wolves will have its Canadian premiere there this Friday night. In the Fantasia press notes, co-director Mitch Davis writes, "The sophistication, audacity and sheer force of execution on display here announces them as leading talents on the world cinema stage and will have many declaring them the Israeli Coen Brothers — with shades of early Park Chan-wook and Brian De Palma! No wonder it ranked among the best-reviewed entries of this year’s Tribeca film festival, where it left audiences positively gobsmacked."

Davis also talked about the film to Brendan Kelly of the Montreal Gazette. "“Oh my God, the masterpiece of 2013, in my opinion... It’s riveting, it’s funny, it’s brilliant filmmaking. Imagine an Israeli version of the Coen brothers, mixed with early Brian De Palma, and Park Chan-wook. Also imagine Les Sept jours du talion re-imagined as the most sinister black comedy, but at the same time wickedly entertaining and funny. It’s just the perfect movie.”

'DISCOPATH' RECALLS ITALIAN GIALLO, JOHN CARPENTER, & BRIAN DE PALMAMaking its world premiere at the Fantasia fest on August 3rd will be Discopath, the feature debut of Renaud Gauthier, who sold his own home to finance the film, according to Marc Lamothe on the Fantasia web site. Gauthier served as director, screenwriter, art director, and music composer on Discopath, about a man who goes into a homicidal trance whenever he hears disco music. "Nostalgia is already [Gauthier's] stock in trade, his knack for evoking the smiles and styles of the ’70s, so it’s no surprise that his first feature is soaked in disco culture," Lamothe states in the notes. "But beyond the art direction, the mise en scene connects to the era by recalling the golden age of Italian giallo and lessons of masters like John Carpenter and Brian De Palma."